Panel Borders: Collage and reappropriation

Continuing a month of shows looking at webcomics, Panel Borders examines the work of a quartet of creators whose online strips and cartoons reinvent retro images and iconic characters from film and TV to beguiling effect. In a pair of short interviews recorded at Thought Bubble, Leeds 2012, Alex Fitch talks to American creators Scott C – about his webcomics Double Fine Action Comics and The Great Showdowns – and Becky and Frank about Tiny Kitten Teeth, cartoons which utilise imagery from toys, cereal packaging and children’s literature.

Also, Alex looks into the varying merits of print and web-based comics with British writer / artist Paul O’Connell, in an interview recorded at the University of Brighton. Paul’s postmodern fumetti mash-ups mix comedy and horror via strips such as A Muppet Wicker Man and The Seinfeld Matrix, and the artist discusses his collaborations with other Brighton based creators, including Lawrence Elwick on Charlie Parker, Handyman, plus his aspirations for using the medium of online comics to its full interactive potential. (Originally broadcast Sunday 24th March 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Clockwise from top left: webcomics by Scott C x2, Becky, Paul O’Connell x 3, Frank

For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: Paul O’Connell’s website, The Sound of Drowning
Scott’s blog / Great Showdowns and Double Fine Action Comics
Becky and Frank’s website, Tiny Kitten Teeth

Listen to Dickon Harris’ 2010 interview with Paul O’Connell
Listen to Alex’s interview with original Wicker Man director Robyn Hardy

Recommended events:

Comics at Crawley Wordfest

Alex Fitch hosts a panel with Myriad Editions creators Corinne Pearlman, Hannah Eaton and Nye Wright, discussing the mythological in graphic novels Naming Monsters and Things to do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park.

7.30pm, Tuesday 26th March, Crawley Library , Southgate Ave, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 6HG

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Hello GoodBye – 23.03.13 – Ft: Vic Godard and the Subway Sect + Joseph Coward

Guest co-presenter Victoria Yeulet talks with the original Punk Rock maverick Vic Godard.

Listen to Vic Godard performing live in session on Hello GoodBye this afternoon alongside the emerging talents of Joseph Coward.

Forged in the white heat furnace of 1976, Vic Godard & the Subway Sect favoured a motorik, garage sound, with a distinct melodic sensibility, that soon helped to set them apart from their contemporaries The Clash and Sex Pistols. With his refusal to be restricted by the limitations of the Punk palette, Vic soon found himself experimenting with Pop, Jazz, Swing and Motown beats. Over the intervening decades Vic has maintained his mercurial ability and has recently been working closely with Edwyn Collins as producer.
The current band line-up is; Vic Godard – vocals & guitar, Kevin Younger – keyboards & guitar, Mark Braby – bass, guitar or drums plus Yusuf B’Layachi – bass.

Joseph Coward’s music is characterised by his heartfelt baritone voice, multi-layered guitars and high-octane
electronic based rhythms, his new hand-packaged, limited edition 7” vinyl single ‘Children’s Bones’ is currently available on the Blank Editions imprint.

PLAYLIST
Paper Dollhouse – William
Vic Godard and the Subway Sect – Takeover (LIVE SESSION)
Vic Godard and the Subway Sect – Out of Touch (LIVE SESSION)
Vic Godard and the Subway Sect – Out of our Zone (LIVE SESSION)
Vic Godard and the Subway Sect – Better not turn on (LIVE SESSION)
Wire – Lowdown
Vic Godard – ‘interview’ with Victoria Yeulet
The Sexual Objects – Here come the rubber cops
Lies Innit – Real Casinoes
Joanne Robertson – Halls
Haiku Salut – Leaf Stricken
Leafcutter John – Lesson
Joseph Coward – Baby Hughes (LIVE SESSION)
Joseph Coward – The end of the world is coming (LIVE SESSION)
Joseph Coward – Sarah plain and tall (LIVE SESSION)
Joseph Coward – The emperor of America (LIVE SESSION)
Diva – Jazzy Cats
Joseph Coward – ‘interview’
Happy Hooves – Bark
Lime Headed Dog – Excited

Presented by: deXter Bentley, Victoria Yeulet & Dan Frost
Live sound engineers: Kacper Ziemianin & Joe Oldfield

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Wavelength – Electric Music by Pete Challis

Side one of a rare cassette recording of Electric Music by Pete Challis from a performance at the Nigel Greenwood Gallery 5/7/78 – 22/7/78. When the gallery went bankrupt in the 1990s boxes of stuff from the gallery were auctioned off at Sotheby’s. I bought a tea-chest of mixed items; artists’ books, LPs by Yves Klein “Prince of Space” and a few cassettes including the Pete Challis.

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Reality Check: Time and relative Dimensions in the Search for Simon

Alex Fitch talks to the cast and crew of two new low budget British SF movies: director Sloane U’Ren, editor Adam Garstone and members of the cast of Dimensions discuss their ‘Merchant Ivory’ style time travel film which mixes a love triangle with a time loop that joins their pasts with their futures. Also, on the set of new alien abductee comedy drama The Search for Simon, director Martin Gooch and one of the stars – Doctor Who alumnus Sophie Aldred – talk about this crowd funded feature that mixes elements of travelogue with the X-Files.

Posters for Dimensions and The Search for Simon

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The Opera Hour – series 2/episode 21

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy.

Today he talks to world-renowned Handel conductor Laurence Cummings about harpsichords, recits and all things Handel; and his love for the music of Peter Gabriel!

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Originally broadcast on 21st March 2013.

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Art Monthly Talk Show 8th March 2013

Viral Images

Sophie J Williamson on the case of Khaled Mohamed Saeed

Following Khaled Mohamed Saeed’s death at the hands of Egyptian police officers, his family’s decision to release a striking montage of photographs showing him before and after death catalysed mass protests and ultimately revolution. Does the subsequent proliferation of poster images through protestors’ networks highlight the urgent power of the image when embedded within grassroots movements?

‘The viral image is outside the scope of the law so it facilitates the construction of anonymous global networks and a shared history that political institutions are incapable of regulating.’

The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.

Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm

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Art Monthly magazine is indispensable reading!

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Hello GoodBye – 16.03.13 – Ft: Spizz, AJ Holmes and the Hackney Empire + Abandon Reason

PLAYLIST
Jack Day – Snow and Sleet
Abandon Reason ‘feature’ with: Enda Trautt (drums), David Colohan (trombone), Brigid Power Ryce (accordion/guitar/melodica), Declan Kelly(horn), Gavin Prior (guitar), Aaron Coyne (keyboard), Kaiser Caimo (violin), Robin Parmar (processed viola & laptop), Catherine Sikora (saxophone) & Áine O’Dwyer (harp & voice)
Fly Agaric – Inspector Clouseau
AJ Holmes & the Hackney Empire – The revolution will not be Twitterized (LIVE SESSION)
AJ Holmes & the Hackney Empire – Ghost Daddy (LIVE SESSION)
AJ Holmes & the Hackney Empire – Good luck will always follow you (LIVE SESSION)
The Very Best – Running (Moroka remix)
Joseph Coward – Jesus Christ
Vic Godard & the Subway Sect – Ambition
Spizz – Angel Baby -(LIVE SESSION)
Spizz – Amsterdam -(LIVE SESSION)
Spizz – Red & Black -(LIVE SESSION)
Spizz – Where’s Captain Kirk -(LIVE SESSION)
Art Trip and the Static Sound – Pressure
Spizz – ‘interview’
The Rezillos – Glad All Over

Presented by: deXter Bentley, Dan Frost & Ean ravenscroft
Live sound engineers: Tom Kemp & Joe Oldfield

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Panel Borders: James Moran Vs Comics

Continuing a month of shows about webcomics, Alex Fitch talks to screenwriter James Moran (Cockneys vs Zombies, Torchwood) about his new webcomic Day + Night, an urban vampire tale that casts the creatures of the night as ‘sharks on legs’ rather than the sparkly urbane figures found elsewhere. Also, in a panel recorded at Thought Bubble 2012, Vs Comics editor Mike Garley talks about the strip he’s writing – Eponymous – and introduces creators Nich Angell (Tabby and Trout), Ned Hartley (Ghost Club), Adam Christopher (The Sentinel) and Sally Jane Thompson (Happy Birthday) who present the strips they’re contributing to the online anthology comic, with the help of designer Mike Stock. (Originally broadcast Sunday 17th March 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Adverts for six Vs Comics: Night + Day, Eponymous, Happy Birthday, The Sentinal, Tabby and Trout, Ghost Club by various creators

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Wavelength – Rarely Heard Music by Dieter Roth

Canciones de Cadaques, Barks from Cadaques, Hundelieder by Dieter Roth and Richard Hamilton plus a collage of extracts from Dieter Roth Books and Multiples published by Hansjorg Mayer.

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The Opera Hour – series 2/episode 20

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy.
Today he is joined by the artist Edwin Burdis who talks to us about his surreal and witty homemade operas “Fruit Machine” and “Megadairypigfarm,” that support his paintings, drawings and sculptures.